Double passage imaging of partially coherent objects through turbulence: experimental results

Vladimir Alexeevich Myakinin; Alexey Nikolaevic Bogaturov; Christopher Dainty; Alexander V. Gurvich; Christopher J. Solomon; Nicholas J. Wooder

doi:10.1117/12.154825

15 September 1993 Double passage imaging of partially coherent objects through turbulence: experimental results

Vladimir Alexeevich Myakinin, Alexey Nikolaevic Bogaturov, Christopher Dainty, Alexander V. Gurvich, Christopher J. Solomon, Nicholas J. Wooder

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Proceedings Volume 1968, Atmospheric Propagation and Remote Sensing II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.154825
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

It has been shown in previous work that double passage imaging combined with spatial filtering leads to an improvement in the quality of the time-averaged image obtained from coherently reflecting objects (mirrors) which are placed in turbulence. In this paper, the results of experimental investigation of the imaging of partially coherent objects are presented. We have demonstrated that double passage imaging leads to an improvement in image quality only for objects whose correlation scale is larger than the coherence radius of the illuminating radiation.

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Vladimir Alexeevich Myakinin, Alexey Nikolaevic Bogaturov, Christopher Dainty, Alexander V. Gurvich, Christopher J. Solomon, and Nicholas J. Wooder "Double passage imaging of partially coherent objects through turbulence: experimental results", Proc. SPIE 1968, Atmospheric Propagation and Remote Sensing II, (15 September 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.154825

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